Ian Haney López
Ian Haney López, a UC Berkeley law professor and senior fellow at Demos, is the author of Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class (2014). His writings have appeared across a range of sources, from the Yale Law Journal to The New York Times. Follow him on Facebook and Twitter: @IanHaneyLopez.
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August 28, 2017Trump has enabled a racist to trash the Constitution and flout the rule of law.
July 24, 2017Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's editorial in today's New York Times is emblematic of a lack of vision in the party.
September 27, 2016Too often, critics misconstrue dog whistling as a form of personal bigotry, as Hillary Clinton did last night, and that misses the cold calculation of expressing racially loaded ideas in coded terms.
July 26, 2016Last night, Sen. Elizabeth Warren called out Donald Trump and the GOP for the dog-whistle politics they are playing. Democrats need to amplify her message if they want to win in November.
January 29, 2016To mobilize a multiracial coalition, progressives need to demonstrate how racism hurts us all.
October 17, 2014Why are so few decrying the racial elements in today’s scare tactics?
October 7, 2014Deportations reached another record high last year and seem to be the Democratic response to right-wing dog whistling around Latino immigrants.
September 30, 2014Many Republicans have been depicting ISIS not primarily as a foreign concern, but as a domestic threat that may portend the invasion of America via our southern border with Mexico.
September 4, 2014The conservative reaction to the Ferguson police shooting does nothing to advance the real discussion about race that America needs to have.
August 27, 2014Let's hope that Michael Brown's death is the one that finally pierces the national conscience with the essential truth that racial violence kills people.
